Newsletter: Stakeholder Engagement: What Does it Mean for Your Project?
Who are the stakeholders in your project evaluation? How should they be engaged in the evaluation? An evaluation stakeholder is anyone who is involved in or affected by a project or its evaluation...
View ArticleNewsletter: Tools to Prepare a Data Management Plan for NSF
NSF requires that ALL proposals include a data management plan (DMP); FastLane will not accept submissions without one. The DMP must detail “how you will conform to NSF policy on the dissemination and...
View ArticleNewsletter: Beyond Reporting: Getting More Value Out of Your Evaluation
All ATE projects are required to have an evaluation of their work and it is expected that results will be included in annual reports to NSF. But if that’s all a project is using its evaluation for,...
View ArticleNewsletter: Secondary Data Resources
It’s easier than ever to access national-level data that may be useful to ATE projects and centers for planning, benchmarking, or evaluation. A few of these resources are listed below: The National...
View ArticleNewsletter: Project Resumes: Simple, Effective Tools for Accountability
At EvaluATE’s first-ever National Visiting Committee in 2009, Dr. Nick Smith (NVC chair) recommended that we develop a “project vita” as a convenient way to update the NVC on our center’s activities....
View ArticleNewsletter: Data Collection Planning Matrix
The part of your proposal’s evaluation plan that reviewers will probably scrutinize most closely is the data collection plan. Given that the evaluation section of a proposal is typically just 1-2...
View ArticleNewsletter: Creating an Evaluation Scope of Work
One of the most common requests we get at EvaluATE is for examples of independent contractor agreements and scope of work statements for external evaluators. First, let’s be clear about the difference...
View ArticleNewsletter: Communicating Results from Prior NSF Support
ATE proposal season is many months away in early October, but if you are submitting for new funding this year, now is the time to reflect on your project’s achievements and make sure you will be able...
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Newsletter: Bridging the Gap: Using Action Plans to Facilitate Evaluation Use
NSF requires evaluation, in part, because it is an essential tool for project improvement. Yet all too often, evaluation results are not used to inform project decision making. There is a gap in the...
View ArticleNewsletter: ATE Logic Model Template
A logic model is a graphic depiction of how a project translates its resources into activities and outcomes. The ATE Project Logic Model Template presents the basic format for a logic model with...
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